note 84150 added to control-structures.switch

In reply to lko at netuse dot de Just so others know whom may not, that's because PHP does automatic type conversion if a string is evaluated as an integer (it sees the 2 in '2string' so when compared like if ('2string' == 2), PHP sees if (2 == 2) ). I just tested it, but if you go: <?php $string="2string"; switch($string) { case (string) 1: echo "this is 1"; break; case (string) 2: echo "this is 2"; break; case '2string': echo "this is a string"; break; } ?> The output will be "this is a string" and if you change $string to "2" it will again be "this is 2". Just in case that may help anyone who may run into that problem. ---- Server IP: 216.235.15.211 Probable Submitter: 24.108.81.100 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/84150 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84150 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/84150 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php